led) classification of parties. They remain grouped into 
a small number of reactionaries and an enormous mass (host) of refor
mists. The latter are subdivided chiefly (broadly) into zemstvo members and peasants, who will cooperate (will cooperate) as long as 
the agrarian programme is not brought to the fore (until the agrarian programme is brought to the front). The Governor-General 
prohibited the planned congress of the Peasants' Union."

e.
* EXTRACT FROM "TEMPS" ON THE GATHERING AT DOLGORUKOV'S AND ON 
THE DECISIONS OF THE ZEMSTVO CONGRESS.1

Le Temps, 30. IX, likewise reports on the private gathering at Prince 
Dolgorukov's. Milyukov and Kovalevsky disputed with Städ, who had 
affirmed the sincerity of the gov[ernmen]t, and argued that the govern
ment could not be trusted and that the Duma should be used only as an 
instrument of struggle.

Ibid[em]. "Members of the const[itutional]-democratic] p[art]y held 
a special gathering this morning (evidently 28 or 29. IX)".

Ibid[em]. On Thursday by unanimous vote against one—the congress 
voted for the autonomy of Poland.

Agrarian question. Bureau's project: the right of the st[ate] to 
expropriate private landholdings for distribution among peasants. Rejected. A resolution was adopted that it is necessary to ensure le morcellement des terres and to reform the conditions of use (jouissance) of 
private landholdings (des propriétés foncières).

1 The correspondence cited is printed in "Le Temps" under the heading "Le congrès de zemstwos" ("Zemstvo Congress") in No. 16173 of September 30 
and in No. 16174 of October 1, 1905.

* EXTRACT FROM "FRANKFURTER ZEITUNG" ON THE GATHERING AT 
PRINCE DOLGORUKOV'S.

Fr[ankfurt]er Z[eit]un[g]. 30. IX. 1 M[orni]ng ed[ition]. Cor
r[espondenc]e from Berl[in] of 29. IX. Russian Corresp[ondenc]e received the following telegram from Moscow of 28.IX concerning the gathering at Prince Dolgorukov's: